Not very nice here in VIC, but then we have about 10 temperature changes a day, all day, every day!

Nothing unusual about hot weather in November, I was born on 29th November ( a few years ago now ) & it was a 30 degree celcius day----temp back then
was farenhiet, but who cares about the translation!!!

just wondering why you think we will need luck? We have the same conditions every summer. Hot, windy, blustery, bushfire prone........situation
normal, every summer!

type australia into the ATS search box, read the weather related threads, you will be able to answer that question through your own observations.
Having said that, the majority of posters here were able to do that reading this thread alone.

Maybe so, but I live it every day & there's no reason for us to feel threatened by our weather or our climate. Once every 20 or so years we have an
exceptional period where all hell appears to break loose, like early this year, but nothing unusual.( and I don't need to google what I live every
day ) We don't need luck, we are already lucky! But thanx anyway.

Maybe so, but I live it every day & there's no reason for us to feel threatened by our weather or our climate. Once every 20 or so years we have an
exceptional period where all hell appears to break loose, like early this year, but nothing unusual.( and I don't need to google what I live every
day ) We don't need luck, we are already lucky! But thanx anyway.

Thats true

Half our trees even need bushfire to be able to reproduce. They release spores or seeds when they are burnt

mmk fair enough, i don't think i'm old enough to have seen this kind of thing before, actually i'm not. how about those flash floods in vic
yesterday, think they said a years worth of rain or a months worth in a day?

heaps cold up here at the moment

sorry @ SpinifexPrincess
no offence intended before, I misunderstood

-B.M

[edit - to include the word 'sorry'....i guess i thought i was john howard for a minute there...

You didn't post that on your opening post, which is why I responded with saying this is because of El Nino. You said that on the 5th post you did,
but my response was to your opening post where you didn't mention anything about El Nino.

Our country is full of extremes. Most of the population live on the smallest part of the land, near the coast of eastern australia. It's not until
you get to the rest of it ( aka "the outback" ) that you realise just how big, & hostile the place actually is. Our Aboriginals have been burning
off for thousands of years, that's exactly how our native trees seed themselves, as OZ said.
We're used to our climate, where one day can be 45 degrees celcius, & the very next day can be 16 degrees celcius. I don't say we like it, we're
just used to the extremes in temp. We live it every day. And I still say we're the lucky ones!!

I don't get that, we don't hear about it in OZ, is it something that annually affects a near by country, and the difference is that this year its
affects are being felt in oz too?

Actually, Australia is affected by El Nino and La Nina to a huge extent. Every year my colleagues in the Bureaus climate section do an analysis of the
sea temperatures and the Southern Oscialltion Index and put out a climate forecast based on that data, to determine how strong or how weak the El Nino
weather pattern is.

Interestingly enough, OZweatherman, the incidents of reporting the El Nino & La Nina conditions & which one is affecting us at the time, has pretty
much dried up in the media in the last few years since the "global warming" bandwagon came out.
I was just mentioning this to a friend of mine the other day, & they commented with "yeah, I remember El Nino, whatever happened to that!!"

Nothing happened to El Nino & la Nina, they are still there, & still affecting out climate- cyclicly! You just wouldn't know it if you read the
papers or watched the news!!

btw they just had bushfires...never saw a bushfire there for the 7-8yrs i lived there, a friend told me it isn't THAT rare tho.

my cousins an environmental scientist working in W.A, I wonder if he does any of that kind of work....

I mentioned to him that apparently global warming is occurring on other planets too and its a natural process for our galaxy, he told me that earth
was due to enter an ice age but due to the warming it wasn't going to happen, i suggested that perhaps the 2 will cancel each other out and we'll be
fine.

Originally posted by SpinifexPrincess
Interestingly enough, OZweatherman, the incidents of reporting the El Nino & La Nina conditions & which one is affecting us at the time, has pretty
much dried up in the media in the last few years since the "global warming" bandwagon came out.
I was just mentioning this to a friend of mine the other day, & they commented with "yeah, I remember El Nino, whatever happened to that!!"

That is true. I started a thread a while back explaining my reasoning behind thinking that El Nino and La Nina transition phases were responsible for
the unusual temperature extremes experienced across the world. Unfortunantly it didnt get much attention, so Im thinkin of starting another thread on
it....not sure it will work though

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